scwm 0.4

[Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@mit.edu>]

Scwm 0.4 is released. Get it from

http://web.mit.edu/mstachow/www/scwm.html

I've also added a link to a useful icon distribution and a screenshot
showing some of the new features. 

Scwm is the Scheme-Configurable Window Manager, a window manager for
X11 with Guile Scheme as the configuration language, designed to be
highly programmable. It's still under development but already has a
lot of cool features. Since scwm 0.3, I have been joined by Greg
J. Badros, who implemented many of the new features listed below.

 - Maciej Stachowiak


New with this release:

Changes to scwm-0.4

set-xor-value! has been renamed to set-rubber-band-mask!.

Window-shades can now optionally be animated. (See gjb.scwmrc for an
example.)

Images are now Scheme objects. Anything that takes an image filename
string can now take either a filename string or an image
object. make-image creates an image object. set-icon-path! and
set-pixmap-path! are now gone and replaced by set-image-path!.

Paths are no longer environment-variable expanded; use the Scheme
procedure getenv if you need this.

wait-for-window now takes a predicate rather than a wildcard
string. You can pass (wildcard-matcher NAME) to get the old effect.

Implementation of decors and faces to allow a fair amount of
customization of the look. The low-level interface consists of the
make-decor, set-current-decor!, set-window-decor!, make-face,
set-title-face!, set-button-face!, set-button-mwm-flag! and
set-border-face! procedures, but the new (app scwm decor) and (app
scwm face) modules provide the friendlier wrappers with-decor,
title-style, button-style and border-style.

Added support for set-smart-placement-is-really-smart!,
set-click-to-focus-passes-click!, set-click-to-focus-raises! and
set-mouse-focus-click-raises!. These are obscure, but being able to
have click-to-focus without raising the window is nice.

New (app scwm fvwm-compat) module with some fvwm-compatability
procedures that are otherwise not very useful.

Added send-button-press and send-key-press to send synthetic mouse
button and keypress events.

Added animated moves - move-to can optionally animate the movement of
a window. See gjb.scwmrc for examples.

Added unbind-key and unbind-mouse - bindings can now be removed.

Added a sendscwm program and scwm-buffer.el; allows some interaction
with a running scwm, but the interface is not yet two-way.

Added sample.scwmrc/gjb.scwmrc, a scwmrc example that has more
features and shows off a lot of new functionality.

Improvements to the build process to make VPATH and dependencies work
correctly.

Many bug fixes.